Skillful attention to lived experience, willingness to face fear, and awareness of spaciousness from which everything arises result in a dynamic and vital life experience. See my book "Being Prayer" for explanation of these practices being appropriate for any tradition, particularly Christianity.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Insight, wisdom, is a natural outcome of a skillful meditation practice.

Insight is not knowledge in the general sense, but penetrative knowledge acquired as a result of not looking at but looking through things.

Anālayo quoting Nanyakkara

I think this is a great way to describe an experience of insight. Is it your experience, too? Can you think of specific times when the capacity showed up for you? In your meditation practice? In your daily life?

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We need only invoke the power of mindful awareness in any action of body, speech or mind to elevate that action from the unconscious reflex of a trained creature to the awakened choice of a human being who is guided to a higher life by wisdom. - Andrew Olendzki